Recaps

Jiang Nuan exposed schemes against Qian Yangxi and Wu Hongcai, helped Lin Mingxu’s family, and uncovered corruption in Auspicious Peace County. After returning to the capital and arranging new work for Qing Yu and Xiao En, she saw the Spring Examination bring Wu Hongcai’s vindication and an awkward matchmaking attempt for Lin Mingxu.

• Jiang Nuan helped Qian Yangxi discover that Wei Xinyuan and Qian Yangyue were conspiring against her, and Chunhua and Qiuyue captured the pair after they planned to drug and abduct her.
• Jiang Nuan arranged for Gu Qingfeng to treat Lin Mingxu’s mother, and Lin Mingxu promised to serve her in return.
• Jiang Nuan persuaded the court to prepare an invasion of Japan and demonstrated the New-Model Hand Cannon and telescopes, earning a title and a fief.
• Jiang Nuan helped Lin Shu expose Hou Ping’s assault attempt, then joined Lin Xingheng in uncovering Lin Zhe’s corruption and collusion with bandits.
• Jiang Nuan arrested Lin Zhe and his accomplices, sent them to build a canal, and returned to the capital with Qing Yu, who began managing a milk tea shop and teaching martial arts.
• Qing Yu recognized Xiao En’s talent and invited him to train at Green Mountain Sword Manor, while Jiang Nuan returned to her shops as the Spring Examination began.
• Shi Yongfu tried to frame Wu Hongcai for cheating, but his tampering was exposed and he was arrested.
• Jiang Nuan and Lin Mingxu found Qian Yangxi helping Lin Mother, and Lin Mother and Qian Chunhe urged a match between Lin Mingxu and Qian Yangxi before Qian Shuo arrived.

Jiang Nuan uncovered secrets surrounding the court and the Palace Examination while helping resolve a regional dispute over the exam rankings. She turned to improving crops for Great Xia, then faced a new challenge when Goryeo proposed contests for cities.

• Qian Shuo approved Qian Yangxi’s match with Lin Mingxu after recognizing him as a regional Top Candidate, while Jiang Nuan overheard Cai Jingheng discussing a change of plans.
• Jiang Nuan learned Tang Miaoling had a cruel history and urged her Empress Mother not to approve a betrothal, while she helped An Yan and Yun Shining promote their peach blossom drinks at a poetry gathering.
• Jiang Nuan helped expose Prince Xin Jiang Xiangyang’s plans, and Jiang Yunsheng sent him to live in the mountains under guard after uncovering his private army and dragon robe.
• At the Palace Examination, Jiang Nuan revealed the histories of Xia Gaoyang, Feng Qiuyan, Min Guangyao, and Huang Chao, while Jiang Yunsheng considered reforms to agriculture and tax collection.
• After Zhang Gaoyang, Wu Hongcai, and Lin Mingxu topped the examination, northern candidates protested that the all-southern results showed favoritism, and Jiang Yunsheng ordered separate Northern and Southern Lists.
• Jiang Nuan showed Feng Qiuyan her Potato, Sweet Potato, and bean crops, explaining their potential and the limits of expanding them with the available seeds.
• When a Goryeo envoy proposed three contests and wagered five cities against Great Xia’s cities, Jiang Nuan asked Guagua to investigate Goryeo’s intentions.

Jiang Nuan helped Great Xia defeat Goryeo in a contest, reunited with Cen Xue, and exposed the Cen family’s mistreatment of her. After Goryeo surrendered ten cities and an assassination attempt failed, Jiang Yunsheng set out on an inspection tour with Jiang Nuan and Cen Xue, where they began hearing merchants’ complaints about official corruption.

• Jiang Yunsheng accepted Goryeo’s wager, and Great Xia won the contests by breaking the Nine-Link Puzzle, answering the couplets, and reciting poems about wine, securing ten cities.
• Jiang Nuan met Cen Xue, who had also transmigrated, and learned she had been sent away by her stepmother after being struck by a car in the modern world.
• Jiang Nuan accompanied Cen Xue to the Cen Residence, where Cen Xue cut ties with her father and secured a Severance Letter after Jiang Nuan revealed her imperial identity.
• Cen Xue joined An Yan’s business and decided to pursue a place in Great Xia’s court, while Jiang Nuan explained that Cen Xue’s circulated poetry had helped Great Xia win the wager.
• Goryeo offered ten cities and vassal status, but Jiang Nuan exposed its delegation’s poisoned-dagger plot, leading Jiang Yunsheng to order an invasion.
• Jiang Nuan learned that Yu Henan planned to harm Jiang Yunsheng, and Yu Xianzhi stopped him before he died after finding the woman he had mourned living with her family.
• Jiang Yunsheng invited Jiang Nuan and Cen Xue on his inspection tour, and the Check-In System gave Jiang Nuan an invisibility ability while Guagua gained a link to Cen Xue.
• Traveling in disguise, Jiang Nuan and Cen Xue heard merchant Zhu Zhizhuan describe the Qingshui County magistrate’s extortion, and Guagua revealed that Zhu’s studies had been blocked by an examiner’s nephew.

Jiang Nuan and Jiang Yunsheng exposed corruption, stopped a human sacrifice, and warned Great River Village about a coming flood and plague. In Kaiyang County, Jiang Nuan secretly claimed half an underground treasury, while the party helped Han Xin set out toward a military career before encountering another man in danger.

• Jiang Yunsheng exposed Yang Junnan’s extortion and crimes at a banquet, revealed his imperial identity, and handed the corrupt merchants over for punishment.
• Jiang Nuan helped Huo Qianlan escape Song Quan’s plan to sacrifice her, then stopped the sacrifice of Song Li and exposed Jade Spring Village’s High Priest.
• Jiang Nuan warned Great River Village of a coming flood and plague, and Jiang Yunsheng secured Zhou Hongyuan’s help and promised funds for the planned defenses.
• Jiang Yunsheng’s party stopped bandits hired by Gong Xingwei from abducting Zhao Yingxiu, then escorted her to Kaiyang County, where Jiang Yunsheng’s imperial identity thwarted Gong Zhen’s attack on the Zhao Trading Company.
• Jiang Nuan followed Gong Zhen’s tunnel to the former dynasty’s underground treasury and secretly took half its valuables before planning how Jiang Yunsheng could find the site.
• Jiang Nuan defended Han Xin from Magistrate Gao’s nephew, and Jiang Yunsheng tested Han Xin and gave him a recommendation for the northern army camp.
• Han Xin left for the army camp, while Jiang Nuan’s party heard that a pursued man had lost his protectors and was being chased by his brothers.